Lonely and different: accents, big brothers and being too much, sentence 13
Being picked last again and again hurts; teachers can choose teams in fairer ways if they are told.
Who acts: teachers · What happens: pick, hurt, choose, tell · To what, where: teams, fairer ways, teachers · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Lonely and different: accents, big brothers and being too much» of the reflection course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (teachers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 picked | aux:pass |
| 2 | picked | pick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 hurts | csubj |
| 3 | last | last | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 picked | advmod |
| 4 | again | again | ADV | _ | 2 picked | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 hurts | cc |
| 6 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 again | conj |
| 7 | hurts | hurt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 hurts | punct |
| 9 | teachers | teacher | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 choose | nsubj |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 choose | aux |
| 11 | choose | choose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 hurts | parataxis |
| 12 | teams | team | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 choose | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 ways | case |
| 14 | fairer | fair | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 ways | amod |
| 15 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 choose | obl |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 told | mark |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 told | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 told | aux:pass |
| 19 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 choose | advcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 hurts | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pick | gerund · passive | again | last property | vn chew-39.2 «NP V» | ||||
| 2 | hurt | present | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | choose | can | teachers | teams | fairer ways | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent team=Theme | |||
| 4 | tell speech: assert a condition, not said to happen | present · passive | teachers = teacher | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:reflection:022-lonely-and-different-accents-big-brothers-and-being-too-much.lesson:13.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
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